Device setter, device setting system, and recorded medium where device setting program recorded

• US 20020161572A1
• Filed: 09/04/2001
• Published: 10/31/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 01/05/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Kusumoto, Noritaka
• Granted Patent: US 7,181,394 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/201
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 19/28 using pulse code
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4112 having fewer capabilities than the client, e.g. thin client having less processing power or no tuning capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41265 having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42203 sound input device, e.g. microphone
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42208 Display device provided on the remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/426 Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof H04N5/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44231 Monitoring of peripheral device or external card, e.g. to detect processing problems in a handheld device or the failure of an external recording device configuring of peripheral devices in general G06F9/4411; reporting information sensed by appliance or service execution status of appliance services in a home automation network H04L12/2823; monitoring the status of connected device in data switched networks H04L43/0817

Abstract

A word-device setting information storage part stores multiple device setting information in association with a single voice and a voice recognition part recognizes a voice input through a voice input part so that the multiple device setting information associated with the recognized voice is read from the word-device setting information storage part to a device control part, which in turn sets an internal device state of a device setting apparatus while an external device control part sets a state of an external device in response to the read multiple device setting information

Claims

1. A device setting apparatus comprising:

voice input means converting an input voice to a voice signal;

voice recognition means recognizing a voice corresponding to said voice signal converted by said voice input means;

storage means storing multiple device setting information associated with a single voice; and

setting means reading multiple device setting information corresponding to said voice recognized by said voice recognition means from said storage means and performing multiple device setting in response to said read multiple device setting information.

2. The device setting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said setting means includes internal device setting means performing multiple device setting in said device setting apparatus.

3. The device setting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said device setting apparatus is connected with an external device in a bidirectionally communicable state, and

said setting means includes external device setting means performing multiple device setting on said external device.

4. The device setting apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising registration means registering multiple device setting information associated with a new voice in said storage means.

5. The device setting apparatus according to claim 4, wherein

said registration means further includes:

display means displaying a plurality of words corresponding to a registrable voice, and

selection means for selecting a word corresponding to a voice to be registered from said plurality of words displayed on said display means, and

said registration means registers said word selected by said selection means in said storage means in association with multiple device setting information.

6. The device setting apparatus according to claim 5, wherein

said selection means further includes receiving means receiving a remote control signal transmitted to said device setting apparatus, and

said selection means performs selection in response to said remote control signal received by said receiving means.

7. The device setting apparatus according to claim 4, wherein

said registration means further includes:

character display means displaying a plurality of characters for forming a plurality of words corresponding to a registrable voice, and

selection means for selecting a character forming a word corresponding to a voice to be registered from said plurality of characters displayed on said character display means, and

said registration means registers said word formed by said character selected by said selection means in said storage means in association with multiple device setting information.

8. The device setting apparatus according to claim 7, wherein

said selection means further includes receiving means receiving a remote control signal transmitted to said device setting apparatus, and

said selection means performs selection in response to said remote control signal received by said receiving means.

9. The device setting apparatus according to claim 4, wherein

said registration means further includes:

acquisition means acquiring multiple device setting information, and

selection means for selecting multiple device setting information associated with a new voice from said multiple device setting information acquired by said acquisition means, and

said registration means registers said multiple device setting information selected by said selection means in said storage means in association with said new voice.

10. The device setting apparatus according to claim 9, wherein

said selection means further includes receiving means receiving a remote control signal transmitted to said device setting apparatus, and

said selection means performs selection in response to said remote control signal received by said receiving means.

11. A device setting system comprising:

a device setting apparatus; and

a set device connected with said device setting apparatus in a bidirectionally communicable state, wherein

said device setting apparatus includes;

voice input means converting an input voice to a voice signal;

voice recognition means recognizing a voice corresponding to said voice signal converted by said voice input means;

storage means storing multiple device setting information associated with a single voice; and

setting means reading multiple device setting information corresponding to said voice recognized by said voice recognition means from said storage means and performing multiple device setting of said set device in response to said read multiple device setting information.

12. The device setting system according to claim 11, wherein

said set device includes a remote control device for remote-controlling said device setting apparatus, connected with said device setting apparatus in a bidirectionally communicable state.

14. The recording medium recording a device setting program according to claim 13, wherein

said setting step includes a step of performing multiple device setting in said device setting apparatus.

15. The recording medium recording a device setting program according to claim 13, wherein

said setting step includes a step of performing multiple device setting on an external device connected with said device setting apparatus in a bidirectionally communicable state.

16. The recording medium recording a device setting program according to claim 13, wherein

said device setting program further causes said processing unit perform steps of displaying a plurality of words corresponding to a registrable voice and registering a word selected from displayed said plurality of words in said storage means as a new voice in association with multiple device setting information.

17. The recording medium recording a device setting program according to claim 16, wherein

said registering step includes steps of acquiring multiple device setting information and registering multiple device setting information selected from said acquired multiple device setting information in said storage means in association with said new voice.

18. The recording medium recording a device setting program according to claim 13, wherein

said device setting program further causes said processing unit perform steps of displaying a plurality of characters for forming a plurality of words corresponding to a registrable voice and registering a word formed by a character selected from displayed said plurality of characters in said storage means as a new voice in association with multiple device setting information.

19. The recording medium recording a device setting program according to claim 18, wherein

said registering step includes steps of acquiring multiple device setting information and registering multiple device setting information selected from acquired said multiple device setting information in said storage means in association with said new voice.

13. A recording medium recording a device setting program for making a processing unit perform device setting in a device setting apparatus having said processing unit, voice input means converting an input voice to a voice signal and storage means storing multiple device setting information associated with a single voice, wherein

said device setting program causes said processing unit perform steps of:

recognizing a voice corresponding to said voice signal converted by said voice input means, and

reading multiple device setting information corresponding to recognized said voice from said storage means and performing multiple device setting in response to read said multiple device setting information.